Category Archives: Authors

The Future of Creative Writing

Posted on December 8, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Inspiration is everywhere, but if you write about your life, make sure you’re consistent about the pseudonym. Continue reading →

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Bibliopocalypse Bullshit

Posted on December 6, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

If you’re a literature lover, you’ve probably grown weary of false prophets proclaiming The End of the Book. It’s easy to shake your head and smirk at the world’s December 21st doomsday preoccupations, but rumors of the publishing apocalypse have bombarded the literary world for a long time now, and such discussions still make us […] Continue reading →

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The Reluctant Read

Posted on November 28, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Have you ever read a book you were certain you would despise? Someone forced it on you, for one reason or another—class or a kindly but pushy relative—and every ounce of you resisted. You took the loathsome lump of a novel in your hands and a frown unfolded from every crook in your body. Your […] Continue reading →

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Write High and Edit Sober

Posted on November 14, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Hey there literature lovers,
Guess what? Last week Colorado and Washington legalized recreational marijuana use. I bet you knew that already.
Whether you agree with the new laws or not, the precedent of substance-inspired prose was set a long, long ti… Continue reading →

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The Case for Lilac Prose

Posted on October 17, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Dear literature lovers, have you grown sick of simple sentences? Deadened to the doldrums of dry, dusty prose? Benumbed by the banal? You’re not alone. I, and at least one other guy, agree with you. And after all, don’t we have a right to be upset? These days American literature has taken on the drab […] Continue reading →

Posted in american prose, Authors, Ben Masters, Bruno Schulz, Literature, maximalism, New York Times, prose, Saul Bellow, Street of Crocodiles, Vladimir Nabokov, writing | Comments Off

The Power of Imagination Against Oppression

Posted on October 10, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Why do we read literature? No, really, why? Good literature goes beyond entertainment—it reaches down into the core of us and jerks us back into the heart of the world, into the heart of humanity, into the whirling depths of the human soul. That is what we need to remember. Azar Nafisi, author of Reading […] Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Azar Nafisi, books, C.S. Lewis, empathy, imagination, Iran, Life, Literature, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Short story, story | Comments Off

Strutting Across the Author Platform

Posted on October 9, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

This is a big one everybody. Get ready. Don your chunky yellow hard hat and your white paper mouth masks and the oversized plastic goggles that make the rounds of your eyes expand to the size of fish bowls. You ready? You good? Because this is explosive. Drumroll, everyone… I JUST PUBLISHED MY NOVEL!!!!!!!!!!!! TELL […] Continue reading →

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Blogs to Read When Your Apartment is Shaking

Posted on October 8, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

If you are like me, which is to say you live on the fourth floor of a dilapidated apartment building with no elevator, no couch, and no kitchen table, not to mention the fact that the windows rattle in their frames with every burst of thunder that shakes the building (twice in the past minute), […] Continue reading →

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Read “Birnam Wood” by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Posted on September 21, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

My aunt learned to read tarot cards in college as a party trick. Now, every New Years when she comes to visit, she’ll pull out her stack of cards from their purple velvet pouch, shuffle them between her long-nailed hands, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The World Must Be All Fucked Up

Posted on July 24, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

“The world must be all fucked up,” he said then, “When men travel first class and literature goes as freight.” – Gabriel García Márquez And with the packing of the books, you know we’ve come to the end of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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On Writing Bad Fiction

Posted on July 11, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

I just wrote a bad story. A 26-page disaster of a story, to be specific. Now that I’ve come to the end of it, now that it’s all been punched out—I’ve come to realize that the whole thing is one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The Good Life, Whatever It Is and Wherever It Happens to Be

Posted on July 10, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the ‘good life’, whatever … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Hunter S. Thompson, American Legend

Posted on June 27, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Last weekend while I was in Austin, I met Alan Rinzler, the man who published and worked with Hunter S. Thompson, Toni Morrison, Tom Robbins, and Bob Dylan, among others. He told me that Hunter S. Thompson was a crazy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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